Yes, yes, you have heard well, my Ladies and Sieurs, it is well THIS WAY, the WAY, I would even say that here, it is the BY-WAY. Yes? Are you following me?” …

Alsatian castles, built for the most part in the 12th and 13th centuries, remain indissolubly linked to the collective imagination around the Middle Ages. Yet the stones of a building are only the “silent witnesses of the centuries. Life is in the annals” (Louis Spach).
This creation of the Tohu-Bohu Theatre company is intended to let us hear the voices of those who lived eight hundred years ago, thanks to the charters preserved by the Archives of Alsace, to the poems and songs of the Minnesänger (finds) contemporary texts, and the tales and legends of Alsace.
Far from the preconceived ideas that still often run short about the Middle Ages, it is the portrait of a rich and dynamic medieval society that is emerging, in the framework of a colorful and rhythmic representation, where knowing rhymes with pleasure.
A co-production Archives d'Alsace/ Tohu-Bohu Théâtre